Humans
In our own image: Why we treat things like people
Features
This week's magazine
27 November 2010
Issue 2788
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Life
Find your biological relatives through new gene bank
People conceived through donor sperm or egg could soon discover half-siblings through a proposal to collect and match their DNA samples
News
Earth
Recipe to save the world’s tigers
News
Physics
North Korea could make two nuclear bombs per year
News
Health
Stem cell trial for blindness gets green light
News
NASA’s spare solar sail reaches orbit
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Meningitis vaccine to be distributed through Africa
News
Earth
China bucks recession trend to keep emissions high
News
Physics
The dark side of antimatter
News
Earth
Californian conservationists go trawl fishing
News
Physics
New evidence that weird quantum supersolid exists
News
Life
Crime scene blood could identify age of criminal
News
Humans
Thoughts of religion prompt acts of punishment
News
Physics
Sea of photons made to act as one ‘super-photon’
News
Health
US bans sale of alcoholic drinks with caffeine kick
News
Health
Blind mice can see where they run
News
Earth
Snake fangs evolved from groovy teeth
News
T. Rex had a big bum
News
Space
Comet caught throwing basketball-sized snowballs
News
Physics
Found: first planet from another galaxy
News
Physics
Galactic illusion helps refine dark energy abundance
News
Earth
Weakening ice sheet could protect itself from the sea
News
Health
Red wine packed with antidiabetes compounds
News
Health
Radio-wave treatment cuts high blood pressure
News
Earth
Glowing trees could light up city streets
News
Technology
Robots learn to read the writing on the wall
News
Technology
Police radar guns could help identify suicide bombers
News
Technology
Smartphone app monitors your every move
News
Health
Skin patch could offer pain relief with every flinch
News
Opinion
How community spirit can backfire
Could a more cohesive society promote dehumanisation?
Opinion
The perils ahead for literate robots
Opinion
50 ideas to change science forever: competition winner
Opinion
Health
How to see reality on drugs
Opinion
Life
Wildlife film-maker: Everybody’s faking it
Opinion
Physics
Gravitational waves: Inside the Equinox Event
Opinion
Features
Humans
In our own image: Why we treat things like people
Cursing computers, talking to plants, even putting pigs on trial: anthropomorphism may be irrational, but it's how we cope with an indifferent world
Features
Earth
Cloud lasers: Hunting quantum secrets in the skies
Features
Earth
Magnetovision: Birds’ seventh sense revealed
Features
Health
Born scared: How your parents’ trauma marks your genes
Features
Culture
Humans
Mapping the mind to the body 鈥� a little too easily
Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind has some intriguing new ideas based on solid science and makes a grand claim, but won't get its hands dirty
Culture
Anarchy or empire? The internet in the balance
Culture
One modern man’s act of sun worship
Culture
Explorers and other strange creatures
Culture
